Hot Fuzz Redux

[jetpack_monkey]

Saw Hot Fuzz tonight. For the second time. Not for research purposes, but because it is a fucking awesome movie.

I laughed harder and more merrily in this second go -- no longer constrained by having to closely follow the plot, I was free to notice so many more little details and the expert timing of so many comic sequences.

One thing that I cannot believe I didn't notice the first time around is...

When Reverend Shooter is shot, he exclaims "Je-sus CHRIST!" just like Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (Woodward has a very specific way of saying the name). The plot of Hot Fuzz has several surface similarities to The Wicker Man and Woodward himself plays the head of the Neighborhood Watch.

As midnightfae and I had just watched the end of The Wicker Man for my "Brutal Deaths" article on Classic-Horror, we found this so funny we didn't stop laughing for a full minute, much to the annoyance of everyone else in the theater, who didn't know what we were on about. It was made much funnier by the fact that I'd misidentified Rev. Shooter's actor as being Woodward (I knew he was in the film, but I didn't know specifically which role).

After this viewing of the film, the roomie and I left the theater still laughing. We didn't stop until we were almost home, and we nearly busted a gut when a cop zoomed by on his motorcycle.

Shaun of the Dead is the better film, but I think I love Hot Fuzz just a little more. Bravo, gents.

Comments

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Yaaaarp.

I mean, I agree. The lovely structure of Shaun of the Dead is... well, Hot Fuzz does do some of the same lovely foreshadowing/setting up of parallels from the beginning to the end, but not to the same beautiful degree.

But I think I love the supporting cast of Hot Fuzz a whole lot more.